Early voting ends this week

Early voting for the Feb. 18 special election will end tomorrow. Voters can visit the polls until 7 p.m. Tuesday. The polls will reopen 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday for Election Day. Nine candidates are vying for the Place 1 seat on Frisco City Council. The seat is being vacated by council member Bob Allen, who is running for mayor. For more information about voting locations and the candidates, click here.

Frisco ISD board of trustees meets Monday

The board of trustees will discuss adopting FISD District of Innovation plan and a resolution against the state's new A-F accountability system. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the FISD Administration Building, 5515 Ohio Drive. FISD must adopt a plan to become a DOI, a designation that would allow the district to have more local control through exemptions from the Texas Education Code. By becoming a DOI, FISD could have more flexibility on certain state regulations, such as the school year calendar, teacher certifications and minutes of instruction. The board will also vote on a resolution asking the Texas Legislature to repeal the new A-F accountability system and allow districts to design their own internal accountability systems. The A-F system grades districts on five different domains using the letter grades of A, B, C, D or F. The preliminary ratings released in January show that FISD received a C in the domain that measures students' postsecondary readiness.

Texas Health Resources plans a hospital in Frisco

During Tuesday's meeting, Frisco Planning and Zoning Commission will vote on a preliminary site plan for a planned Texas Health Resources hospital campus at the southeast corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Cobb Hill Drive. The 325,000-square-foot hospital is planned to have a 24-7 emergency room, surgical services, women’s services and a neonatal intensive care unit. The 20-acre campus is also planned to include a 120,000-square-foot medical office building for primary care practices and a 90,000-square-foot clinic. The hospital is expected to open in 2019. Texas Health Resources does not yet have a hospital campus in Frisco, but the nonprofit health care system does have a behavioral health center, a sports medicine clinic and freestanding emergency rooms in Frisco.

City Council, Frisco Economic Development Corp. board of directors hold joint work session

City Council and the FEDC board of directors will hold a joint work session at 3:30 Wednesday on the fourth floor of Frisco City Hall, 6101 Frisco Square Blvd. During the meeting, Council will hear a presentation on FEDC's economic development strategy and then discuss the FEDC's strategic plan.